The FY 2007 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill includes two priority projects sought by eMagin Corporation and the U.S. Army. eMagin will conduct two technology development efforts to support projected military needs. The first aims to improve the power-efficiency of OLED microdisplays for U.S. Army thermal imaging applications; the second will result in a very high-resolution, HD-compatible display for U.S. Army medical applications.

The bill has budgeted $2.75 million to support the two projects for fiscal year 2007. The projects will involve design and engineering resources in both New York and Washington.

Canon said that they will start to build SED TVs in 2008.

Canon and Toshiba have been working on SED since 2004 in a joint venture.

Sensics announced the immediate availability of a revolutionary line of upgrade-able high-performance head-mounted displays (HMDs). An upgrade-able panoramic HMD is a new and exciting concept that is exclusively offered by Sensics. It provides customers with dozens of high-resolution, panoramic HMD configurations to meet a very wide range of performance and budget requirements. At the same time, it delivers peace of mind and investment protection: should requirements change, customers are able to cost-effectively upgrade to panoramic models with even higher performance.

The new upgrade-able piSight configurations are immediately available and start under $35,000. The piSight uses eMagin OLED microdisplay modules.